He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.