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.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
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.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
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.
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.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.