Appetite comes with eating.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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.

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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.