When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.