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

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.