We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

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

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.