The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero