Change everything except your loves.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.