If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.