The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
In wine, there's truth.
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?