Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.