Let us cultivate our garden.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.