Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

To philosophize is to doubt.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.