Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.