A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.