Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Death pays all debts.

In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only like doing him good better than having him do me good, but also would rather have him do good to himself than to me; he does me most good when he does himself good.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.