It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.