"This homage has been rendered not to me – for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me – b…"

"There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy."

"I consider that in dialectics I am the equal of Socrates. As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but…"

"Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it."

"Riches, glory, power are mere smoke, vanity! The rich man will find a richer than himself; the greater glory of anoth…"

"Not Nero, but God, rules the world."

"Pliny declares, as I hear, that he does not believe in the gods, but he believes in dreams; and perhaps he is right. …"

"O Petronius, thou hast seen what endurance and comfort that religion gives in misfortune, how much patience and coura…"

"Whoso loves beauty is unable for that very reason to love deformity. One may not believe in our gods, but it is possi…"

"A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psycho…"