“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”

“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”

“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”

“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”

“economy spoils pleasure”

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

“Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.”