If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.