The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
Friends should be preferred to kings.
What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.