We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

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.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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.

Every movement reveals us.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.