Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.