Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.