There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.