"For it would be unbecoming, says Aristotle, to come to banquet covered in sweat and dust; for the true gentleman shou…"

"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was un…"

"Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."

"Dorion, ridiculing the description of a tempest in the "Nautilus" of Timotheus, said that he had seen a more formidab…"

"On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine-cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is ve…"

"Andreotti did everything and the opposite of everything; Forlani did nothing and the opposite of nothing."

"Craxi's politics have the present, they have the future, they have eternity."

"[When asked if he had ever experienced homosexual feelings] Certainly. And more than once. I experience friendship in…"

"I have always noticed that the only figure defined as "unjust" in the Gospel is that of a judge: and it seemed to me …"

"The Islamic God has nothing in common with man: he is a Presence without measure, blending personality and impersonal…"