I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Why did I love her? Because it was her; because it was me.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.