The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.