The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

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

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.