The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.