No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

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

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.