Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.