If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.