Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Continuous eloquence wearies.
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.