Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.

Successful villany is called virtue.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.