The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Be the flame, not the moth.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.