Our virtues and view spring from one root.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Precaution is better than cure.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.