Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

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

You have your face bare; I am all face.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.