“There are those to whom one must advise madness.”

“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”