The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.

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

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.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

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