I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

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

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.