Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides..

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess..

Home is where the heart is..

Nothing is so unequal as equality..

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line..

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures..

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguis….

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by mois….

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good..

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man..

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as qui….

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off..

From the end spring new beginnings..

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list..

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration..

We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming..

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?.

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle o….

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion..

The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This is sh….

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents..