When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Everyone only hears what he understands.

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.