Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.