To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.