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

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.