In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.