Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
He who is brave is free
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest...
What once were vices are now manners.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, a...
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
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.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
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