Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
Fortune favours the audacious.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.