Be the flame, not the moth.

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

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.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

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

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.