It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

On every mountain height is rest.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources