The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.