Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

One may be humble out of pride.

Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.

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