And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.