That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.