How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.