Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those who want to learn, the obstacle can often be the authority of those who teach]

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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