The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them
That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.