Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.