The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Happiness is not the portion of man.
Better is the enemy of good.
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous.
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.