They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.