Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.