Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.