The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.