My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.

Man is a universe in little [ Microcosm ].

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth.