Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.

Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.