They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.