No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Fortune favours the audacious.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
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.