Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.