Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. 
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. 
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. 
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. 
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. 
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. 
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him. 
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. 
Hope is only the love of life. 
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. 
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. 
We only understand that which already is within us. 
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. 
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. 
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. 
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. 
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. 
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. 
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. 
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. 
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. 
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. 
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. 
Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. 
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. 
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection. 
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. 
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. 
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. 
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. 
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. 
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium 
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. 
About Jesus we must believe no one but himself. 
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. 
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. 
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. 
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. 
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. 
The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history. 
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. 
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. 
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. 
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. 
Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life. 
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. 
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. 
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. 
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. 
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals ... 
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. 
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. 
Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. 
The unfinished is nothing. 
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared. 
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being. 