That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

One crime has to be concealed by another.