Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.