Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould