Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.