In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.