We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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.

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

Barba non facit philosophum

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.