Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
They do not think, therefore they are not.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.