The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred..

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle..

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments..

The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be etern….

All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had be….

It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper seaso….

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from fo….

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye..

Truth comes out in wine..

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men ther….

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain..

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees..

Nothing is so unequal as equality..

Home is where the heart is..

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 no….

Many dishes bring many diseases..

Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides..

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess..

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all t….

Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fir….

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line..