He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

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