Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.