... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

The true criminal must be defined as a man who commits a crime though he is as decently fed and clothed as others.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.