Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.