Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.