Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.