Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.