The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
Come, agree, the law's costly.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.