We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

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

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.