Saying is one thing and doing is another

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?

My appetite comes to me while eating.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.