The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.