The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.