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.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

While crime is punished it yet increases.