Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.