It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.