It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.