Birth: 35 Death: 100
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues..
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplish….
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune..
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est….
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes..
Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this….
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up w….
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing..
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught..
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite..
Medicine for the dead is too late.
(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.].
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time..
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do..
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity..
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost..
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake..
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination..
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield..
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned..
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure..