The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.