"There are a precious few whose studies are sound and honest and whose goal is truth and virtue. This is the knowledge…"

"Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda."

"Ainda que vistas a mona de seda, mona se queda."

"De mauvais grain jamais bon pain."

"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."

"Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole l…"

"I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. I had …"

"I certainly will not reject the praise you bestow upon me for having stimulated in many instances, not only in Italy …"

"Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If t…"

"To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost …"