He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

Nature has always had more force than education.

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.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.