He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?