Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.