There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.