The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.