Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.