Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.