Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

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.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.