Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.