“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
“To live is not breathing it is action.”
“Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”
“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
“Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.”
“We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.”
“The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.”
“A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.”
“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
“The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.”
“Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”
“Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.”
“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.”
“Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.”
“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.”
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.”
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
“I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.”
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
“I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.”
“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.”
“All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.”
“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”