When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
Your library is your paradise.
The desire to write grows with writing.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
War is sweet to those who haven’t tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.
Fools are without number.
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.
Prevention is better than cure.
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Fortune favors the audacious.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.