To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

We weaken what we exaggerate.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

We never forget those who make us blush.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.