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

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Women of the world crave excitement.