He who has lived a day has lived an age.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!