Retain the wind by compressing the belly.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.