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

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

My trade and art is to live.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.