Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.