Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.