Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.
Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.