God built the universe on numbers.
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.