Occupation: Prose Writer Birth: 125 Death: 180
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts..
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration..
A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood..
It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned..
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself..
Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus..
If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough..