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.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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.
What once were vices are now manners.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for...
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
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.
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