There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.