To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

Truth is not private property.