A great fortune is a great slavery.
If you wish to be loved, love.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.