Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

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

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

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

God made me and broke the mold.