The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.