If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
What is not in nature can never be true.
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.