Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Time discovers truth.