Never despise what you don't understand.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.