Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.