Book: The story of my life

All my life I have done that persistently sought to the disease, as long as were healthy, and so tried hard to get well when sick. And in that I succeeded with remarkable regularity, and now in this respect, perfectly healthy, and I wish I could still damage their health, but age does not allow.

It is impossible to feel properly happy, if it is not preceded by any burden, and the amount of pleasure depends on the size of the transferred hardship.

Happy are those who, not harming others, they know how to pleasure yourself, and only madmen think that the Supreme Being can rejoice in abstinence, suffering and hardship faced by his people in favor and only likes weirdos who resign themselves to this existence.

A wise man can never be wholly miserable.

The worst joke fate could play with an intelligent man is to put it in the dependence of the fool.

French I've always liked, and the Spaniards - never; the French in manners there is something friendly, such required, which leads to them as to a long time friend; and the Spaniards - some pride out of place telling them something repulsive and not conducive to their benefit. This does not prevent the fact that the French repeatedly I've been burned; the Spaniards also never. Do not believe your own taste.

What you don't pay attention, fizzles out by itself.

Happy or unhappy, life is still the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not like her, not worthy of it.

As long as the fight lasts, you can never be sure of victory.

The past will not return and worry about the future does not make sense, because it would recede into the past. Therefore, carpe diem! - seize the moment!

Who does not know himself knows nothing.

Disadvantages of incorrigible temperament, since temperament is formed regardless of our forces. Nature is composed of mind and heart; temperament has nothing to do with it; nature, therefore, depends on education and, therefore, available to correction and change.

Oath of eternal allegiance - an oath of the most frivolous and absurd that even the most chaste person even before the most beautiful of women never would have had to say.

The woman is like book, which, whether good or bad, first of all captivates us with its cover sheet; if he does not interest us, the book does not inspire us with the desire to read it, and this desire stands in direct relation to the interest which he inspires us. Title page women read from the top down, as the book; and the legs of women still take us no more than the name of the publisher. In any case, the right woman, taking care of your person, clothes and manners; for only in this can they create the desire to read those, whom nature has not bestowed at birth the advantages of blindness.