The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

While crime is punished it yet increases.