I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

We must be young to do great things.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.