The natural heat, say the good-fellows,first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.