Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

Better do nothing than do ill.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.