An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.