It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.