I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Plain as a pike-staff.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.