Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.
A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.