Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

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

The thing is to dazzle