One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

The man who is guided by concepts and abstractions only succeeds by such means in warding off misfortune, without ever gaining any happiness for himself from t…

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

'He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.'