Vain Hopes Are Like Certain Dreams Of

A Liar Ought To Have A Good Memory.

We Should Not Speak So That It Is Possible For The Audience To Understand Us, But So That It Is Impossible For Them To Misunderstand Us.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.

If You Direct Your Whole Thought To Work Itself, None Of The Things Which Invade Eyes Or Ears Will Reach The Mind.

For It Would Have Been Better That Man Should Have Been Born Dumb, Nay, Void Of All Reason, Rather Than That He Should Employ The Gifts Of Providence To The Destruction Of His Neighbor.