The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.