The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.