Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.