Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.
Generosity is more charitable than wealth.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.