Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.