The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
One must not hope to be more than one can be.
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.