The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

The continuous work of our life is to build death.