There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

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.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

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

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.