The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

We live by reposing trust in each other.

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.