The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.