"How slightly soever I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world, (for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decr…"

"Encomium igitur audietis non Herculis, neque Solonis, sed meum ipsius, hoc est, Stultitiae. Iam vero non huius facio …"

"I verify the old observation, that allows him a right of praising himself, who has nobody else to do it for him: for …"

"I shall entertain you with a hasty and unpremeditated, but so much the more natural discourse."

"Let no one be so fond as to imagine, that I should so far stint my invention to the method of other pleaders, as firs…"

"Wherefore since they are so eager to be accounted wise, when in truth they are extremely silly, what, if to give them…"

"Mihi vero neque Chaos, neque Orcus, neque Saturnus, neque Iapetus, aut alius id genus obsoletorum, ac putrium Deorum …"

"I did not, like other infants, come crying into the world, but perked up, and laughed immediately in my mother’s face."

"There is no reason I should envy Jove for having a she-goat to his nurse, since I was more creditably suckled by two …"

"If, as one has ingenuously noted, to be a god is no other than to be a benefactor to mankind; and if they have been t…"