We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Aristoteles quidem ait: ‘Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.’ Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.
He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.
As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.
Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man’s life.
Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.