In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb..

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life..

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations..

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work..

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour..

I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the….

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, ar….

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other..

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..

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited..

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest..

Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger….

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it..

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read..

Man naturally yearns for novelty..

No one is wise at all times..

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat..

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies..

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!.

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible..

Hope is a working-man's dream..