Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Who has more leisure than a worm?