Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.