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

The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

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

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy