If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.