I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.