Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.