In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

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

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

We only half live when we only half think.