Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

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

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.