He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Barba non facit philosophum

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.