You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.