It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.