It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
Life should be lived as play.
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.