We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.