Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.