In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

Many dishes bring many diseases.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

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

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.