No one respects a talent that is concealed.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?