Love of action is not industry.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

While we wait for life, life passes

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power