There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Machination is worth more than force.

The appetite grows with eating.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.