When A Sonnet Is Mediocre It Is

Man Is Free, But His Freedom Ceases When He Has No Faith In It[.

My Success And My Misfortunes, The Bright And The Dark Days I Have Gone Through, Everything Has Proved To Me That In This World, Either Physical Or Moral, Good Comes Out Of Evil Just As Well As Evil Comes Out Of Good.

I Have Met With Some Of Them - Very Honest Fellows, Who, With All Their Stupidity, Had A Kind Of Intelligence And An Upright Good Sense, Which Cannot Be The Characteristics Of Fools.

The Philosopher Is A Person Who Refuses No Pleasures Which Do Not Produce Greater Sorrows, And Who Knows How To Create New Ones.

By Recollecting The Pleasures I Have Had Formerly, I Renew Them, I Enjoy Them A Second Time, While I Laugh At The Remembrance Of Troubles Now Past, And Which I No Longer Feel.