Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.