I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.