If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.