When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

All things are in common among friends.