Even the gods love jokes.
The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.
Putting the shoe on the wrong foot.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.