Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.