If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.