Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Europe is a state with several provinces

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.