The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

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