Crime generally punishes itself.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.