When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

There is no such thing as an accident. What we call by that name is the effect of some cause which we do not see.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

You see, Mademoiselle, I have experience, I know the world. To pass the time, why don't you ask every passenger to tell you his life's story? And if there is a single one among them who has never cursed his life, who has not often told himself that he was the unhappiest of men, then you may throw me overboard, headfirst!