What once were vices are manners now.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Time discovers truth.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.