As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.