"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"

"Happiness is like a ball; we run after it while it is rolling, and we kick it when it stops."

"Fortune is a woman, and she must be courted."

"It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

"Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it."