There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.