The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

We are the buffoons of our children.

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

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

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.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.