If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
History is more or less bunk.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.