In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

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.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.