Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.