A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
Appearance rules the world.
Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.