Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
The entire social order. . . is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike.
I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.