He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.
Sleeping on a plank has one advantage, it encourages early rising.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.