"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

"Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man."

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect"

"The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty"

"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences"

"Our greatest evil flows from ourselves"

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."

"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."

"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

"I only see clearly what I remember."

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

"To live is not breathing it is action."

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

"God made me and broke the mold."