Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.