I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.