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

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

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.

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.

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