No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.