The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive...
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human.
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Jupiter, not wanting man’s life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.
Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he’ll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.