If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.