Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.