It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.