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

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

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

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.