The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.