Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

Servants honor their master by their service.