'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.