For man's greatest crime is to have been born.

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

All just laws condemn cruelty.