Those having torches will pass them on to others.

I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

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.