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.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.