We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.