Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.