To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

- Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste