Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.