Luck never made a man wise.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.