You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.