It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.