I aim here only at revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.