Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
He who is brave is free
All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the p...
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
The world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and wi...
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
What once were vices are now manners.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
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