He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.

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

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.