The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.