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.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

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

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.