Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?