Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
We are the buffoons of our children.
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.