Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it