Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

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

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.