The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
Home is where the heart is.
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
In wine, there's truth.
Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
From the end spring new beginnings.
There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
No one is wise at all times.
Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
Many dishes bring many diseases.
Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.
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