I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.