The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
Without big words, how could many people say small things?
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.