When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.