One promises much, to avoid giving little.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.