Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.