Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.