Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again..

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends..

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely..

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse..

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him..

Who lives content with little possesses everything..

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois s….

Who is content with nothing possesses all things..

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so..

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious..

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him..

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire ….

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee e….

Truth has not such an urgent air..

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle,….

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you..

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice..

Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my ….

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease..

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways..

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass..