Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).