Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

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

It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

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.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.