We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.