We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.