Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.
Beauty is a mute deception.
Our costliest expenditure is time.
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man’s own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.