'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.
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.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.