I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

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.

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

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

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

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

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