We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.