When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Nature has inclined us to love men.