No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

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

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

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