A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

I detest war; it ruins conversation

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them,

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do