Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you! |
From the end spring new beginnings. |
Home is where the heart is. |
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. |
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. |
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. |
No one is wise at all times. |
Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible. |
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. |
The brain is the citadel of sense perception. |
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils. |
The happier the moment the shorter. |
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. |
The master's eye is the best fertilizer. |
The only certainty is that nothing is certain. |