Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

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

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.