The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

The thing is to dazzle

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

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

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.