For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.