Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

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

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

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.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.