"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."

"Little things comfort us because little things distress us."

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry."

"Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise"

"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."

"The bold are helpless without cleverness"

"To generous souls every task is noble."

"Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'"

"The lucky person passes for a genius"

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk"

"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

"To understand is to forgive."

"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other."

"The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog."

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."

"Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference..."

"And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?"

"The wisest men follow their own direction"

"Only a madman would give good for evil"

"There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck."

"Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves"

"Toil says the proverb, is the sire of fame"

"Noble fathers have noble children."

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

"The best prophet is common sense, our native wit."

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience."

"There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair"

"We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter."

"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."

"Impudence is the worst of all human diseases."

"Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity."

"In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart."

"Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries."