Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Sacrifice life to truth.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.