We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

Every man carries the entire form of human condition.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.