There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.