I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.