Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.