Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.