As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.