A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.