It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.
It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.
Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.