Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all