The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.