Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.