Blushing is the color of virtue.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.