How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

An evil life is a kind of death.

Time is generally the best doctor.