A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.