If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The only way to gall and fret effectively is for yourself to be a good and honest man.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".