Passions Are Defects Or Virtues

To Measure Up To All That Is Demanded Of Him, A Man Must Overestimate His Capacities

Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine.

He Who Does Not Stretch Himself According To The Coverlet Finds His Feet Uncovered.

The World Runs On From One Folly To Another; And The Man Who, Solely From Regard To The Opinion Of Others, And Without Any Wish Or Necessity Of His Own, Toils After Gold, Honour, Or Any Other Phantom, Is No Better Than A Fool.

If You Inquire What People Are Like Here, I Must Answer, "the Same As Everywhere."