Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.