Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

Round numbers are always false.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.