In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.