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

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

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.

Whether happy or unhappy, life is the only treasure man possesses.

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.