No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.
Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations But there is Art required to sort and understand them.
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge.
It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.
Who is not sure of his memory should not attempt lying.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
In farewells we heat above ordinary our affections to the things we forego.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The thing I fear most is fear.
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Art and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found And perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
One may be humble out of pride.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
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