It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.