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

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.