When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.