For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Let every foot have its own shoe.