Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.