Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.