Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have a >>
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the >>
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them. >>
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. >>
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure >>
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the ham >>
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.