Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

One may be humble out of pride.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.