Live dangerously and you live right.
The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.