Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.