No animal admires another animal.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.