Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.