There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Open talk opens the way to further talk, as wine does or love.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.