No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.