Democracy passes into despotism.

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The wisest have the most authority.