Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized about oneself in real life is as difficult as practicing anything else, compared to theory.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.