The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.