To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.