Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.