Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.