What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

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.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.