Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect