Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.
For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.