But it is not reason that governs love.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.