People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.