When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.