Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Our need will be the real creator.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love