A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.

Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is its father.

A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.