Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.