Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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

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

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

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.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.