Lend money to an enemy and you will make him your friend; lend money to a friend and you will lose it.
Experience is a precious school, but what if for fools there is no other school.
Absentees are always guilty; those present always have the opportunity to justify themselves.
The first phase of madness is to think yourself wise, the second - to talk about it, the third - to refuse advice.
He who sacrifices his freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety.
Remember that money has the ability to multiply.
Take control of your activities; don't wait for them to take over you.
As long as you cannot be sure of even a minute, do not waste alms even an hour.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience; then the second can be whatever you think is necessary.
Debauchery has breakfast with Wealth, lunch with Poverty, dinner with Misery and goes to bed with Shame.
He goes to bed and gets up early - that's what makes a man healthy, rich and smart.
Ever since humans learned to cook, they have been eating twice as much as nature requires.
Free peoples must defend their liberty without rest and with zealous vigilance.
Laws that are too soft are rarely followed, laws that are too harsh are rarely enforced.
He who is patient can get anything he wants.
Where hunger reigns, laws are not respected; where laws are not respected, hunger reigns.
Trade has not yet brought any people to the wood hoe.
Temperance puts wood on the fire, meat in the pot, bread on the table, gives credit to the state, puts money in the pocket, keeps strength in the body, gives birth to wisdom in the head, and preserves prosperity in the family.
Three changes of residence make one fire.
Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Work is the mother of happiness.
It is hard to imagine how much power man can have over matter.
Little boys have their toys, older boys have their toys. The difference is only the price.
Fatigue is the best cushion.
Teach your children to be quiet. They will also learn to speak on their own.
The celibate is an imperfect being; he resembles the half of a pair of scissors.
Man is a tool-making animal.
Man does not live by what he eats, but by what he digests. This applies equally well to the mind and body.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has less money than when he has more; this may be so as not to think that he would not have at all...
Read a lot, but not too many books.