The best ideas are common property.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.