Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.