I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.