There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.