Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.