I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.