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

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

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.

Every movement reveals us.

If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.