He who is penitent is almost innocent.

Men's language is as their lives.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.