I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more.
The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Saying is one thing and doing is another.
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
The thing I fear most is fear.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.
He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
