. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it. |
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . . |
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is. |
Fortune is always on the side of the big battalions |
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues. |
The heart has no wrinkles |
The heart has no wrinkles |
There is no person who is not dangerous for someone |
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things |
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us. |
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. |