The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

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