To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

I see the cure is not worth the pain.