When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.