Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.