Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.