The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

No one wearies of benefits received.