"Now, if the passions had no hold..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.”

“If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.”

“Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”

“Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.”

“The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.”

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”

“The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.”

“Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.”

“What soon grows old? Gratitude.”