Love is often the fruit of marriage.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.