The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

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

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

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

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.