How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.
I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.