Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

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

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

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

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)