The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues..

Generosity is more charitable than wealth..

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated..

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us..

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous..

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word..

The egoist does not tolerate egoism..

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills..

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears..

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool..

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad..

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives..

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man..

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough..

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears..

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy..

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing..

Great souls are harmonious..

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments..