Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.