“In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.”

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

A truth does not become greater by repetition.

Hold firmly to your word.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

Man’s shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science. It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary.

Hear the truth from whomever says it.

In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

The brute appears (or come forward, “apparait”, Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every (“toute”, Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself (“se fixer”, Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.