The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Full of men, vacant of friends.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.