For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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