There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.