We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.