If you would judge, understand.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Injustice never rules forever.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.