Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Music is the pathway to the heart.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.