Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.
The breath of the mind is attention.
Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
Fear loves the idea of danger.
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
Slander is the solace of malignity.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
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