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

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.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

The thing is to dazzle

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.