1. “The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.”
2. “Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.”
3. “Joy is the vital air of the soul.”
4. “Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.”
5. “There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.”
6. “Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.”
7. “True humility is contentment.”
8. “Hope is only the love of life.”
9. “Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.”
10. “What we do not understand we have no right to judge.”
11. “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”
12. “Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
13. “There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.”
14. “Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.”
15. “The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.”
16. “What governs men is the fear of truth.”
17. “If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
18. “Almost everything comes from almost nothing.”
19. “Society lives by faith and develop by science.”
20. “Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
21. “A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.”
22. “In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
23. “What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.”
24. “Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.”
25. “He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.”
26. “Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
27. “Analysis kills spontaneity.”
28. “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
29. “Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.”
30. “Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
