Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he