A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

In wine, there's truth.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.