One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

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.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies