Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.