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.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.