I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.