When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted.... Nothing was gained, unless horses and asses had also been castrated.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.