Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.