Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.