No sane man will dance.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

All great men are partially inspired.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.