There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?