He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

The people rate strength before everything.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.