The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.