Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Never does nature say one thing and Wisdom another. Variant: Wisdom and Nature! are they not the same? Variant: Nature and Wisdon always speak alike.