Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.