Time takes away the grief of men.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.