Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

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

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

The thing is to dazzle

Love is three quarters curiosity.

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.