The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.