Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Posterity is always just.

I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.