An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.