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

Many dishes bring many diseases.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

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.