Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.
I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.
He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.
God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.