Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

When we are old, our friends find it difficult to please us, and are less concerned whether we be pleased or not.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.