Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

The Germans, a race eager for war.