All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.