Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I don't conquer, I submit.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.