'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.