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.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

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

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.