Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.