Every man has within himself the entire human condition

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

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!

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.