If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.