It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

To philosophize is to doubt.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.