Self-denial is the best riches.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.