No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

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.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

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.