A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
Courage is adversity's lamp.
The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.