A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.