For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.