No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.