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.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.