The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.