Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

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

I don't conquer, I submit.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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

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