For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

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

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.