If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

My trade and art is to live.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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 other men's wisdom.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.