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.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

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