It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

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