There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
He who seeks truth should be of no country.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.