No noble thing can be done without risks.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.