How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

A letter does not blush.

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.