The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye.

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

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.

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.

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.