What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.