The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
The road to the heart is the ear
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.