It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.