Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.