The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

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

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

I am myself the matter of my book.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.