There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?