Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.