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| Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. | | Uncategorized | |
| Money is the seed of money. | | Money | |
| Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves | | Nature | |
| Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it | | Uncategorized | |
| One is only happy before he is happy | | Happiness | |
| Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our greatest evil flows from ourselves | | Evil | |
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| Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is | | Uncategorized | |
| Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. | | Patience | |
| People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. | | Knowledge | |
| Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity | | Uncategorized | |
| Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. | | Uncategorized | |
| Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity | | Uncategorized | |
| Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. | | Uncategorized | |
| Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. | | Uncategorized | |
| Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. | | Uncategorized | |