The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat