“The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.”

At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.

Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

The smallest errors are always the best.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Things are only worth what you make them worth.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

I improvised my life along the way – I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

I see myself through your eyes and I love what I see. So please never look way.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.