It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

economy spoils pleasure

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

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

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