I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.
The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.
We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.
It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.
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