Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.