We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.