For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.