Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.