Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.