"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

I only see clearly what I remember.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.