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.

In a way, the main fault of all books is that they are too long.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

Great men are sometimes so even in small things.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.