He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

My trade and art is to live.