Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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.