Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

A hated government does not long survive.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.