What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.