Everything can be borne except contempt.

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.