My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.