I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

The real friend is another self.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.