For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are...

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first...

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction,...

He was a wise man who invented beer.

He was a wise man who invented beer.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them...

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them...

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest...

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus...

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full...

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full...

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men...

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.