Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.