One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.
Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.