There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.