Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .