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.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.