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

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

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

These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

Barba non facit philosophum