Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

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.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Chance is a second master.

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.