You have your face bare; I am all face.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.