Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other