He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.