Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
The Germans, a race eager for war.
The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.