Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it