As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.