Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]