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

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.