Life is short, but art lives forever.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.