We forgive just so long as we love.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.