Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

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.

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.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

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

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

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.