Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.

The greatest law is: love yourself first

That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

I can eat fifty eggs.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?