Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.