Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.