A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.