He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! – holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

Even when I’m railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Love doesn’t hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that’s why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.