After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~