Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
We live by reposing trust in each other.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
In wine, there's truth.
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.