God created women only to tame men.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

Fame is a heavy burden.

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

Friends should be preferred to kings.