A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.