It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.