Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.