The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.