Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

God defend me from myself.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.