The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

Change everything except your loves.

Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Fame is a heavy burden.

A witty quote proves nothing.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.