If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.