Abstinence is easier than temperance.

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

The language of truth is simple.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.