Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind -...
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I put forward formless and unresolved notions as do those who publish...
I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a...
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content or of weariness....
For truly it is to be noted that children's plays are not sports and should...
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the...
If you don't know how to die don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on...
Marriage a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and...
If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was...
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of...
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their...
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with...
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own...
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future because no one wants to face...
If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles...
The thing I fear most is fear.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in...
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole...
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as...
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
In true education anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the...
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated...
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping...
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Death they say acquits us of all obligations.
It is not death it is dying that alarms me.
The strangest most generous and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.
No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better...
