It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Human beings are curious by nature.
While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.