The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

I am natured into blissful radiance by nature, Natura, and my elemental friends.

If being beautiful guarantees "Forever with You" I'll do whatever it takes.

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

The best ideas must move you before they can move someone else.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I like to get myself in over my head.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.