The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.