Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies count our cooks.
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...
He who is brave is free
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.
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
What once were vices are now manners.
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
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.
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...