1. “He who speaks evil only differ from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.”
2. “When evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.”
3. “Give bread to a stranger, in the name of universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.”
4. “A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”
5. “We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.”
6. “It is the heart which inspires eloquence.”
7. “Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.”
8. “A liar should have a good memory.”
9. “One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
10. “Conscience is a thousand witnesses.”
11. “In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.”
12. “That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.”
13. “While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.”
14. “While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.”
15. “The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.”
16. “The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.”
17. “ain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.”
18. “Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.”
19. “Fear of future is worse than one’s present fortune.”
20. “The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.”
21. “The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.”
22. “A religion without mystics is a philosophy.”
23. “Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”
24. “Ambition is vice, but it may be the father of virtue.”
25. “The perfection of art is to conceal the art.”
