 It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. |
| What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. |
| Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. |
| Time takes away the grief of men. |
| No one respects a talent that is concealed. |
| Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. |
| Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. |
| Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? |
| Fortune favors the audacious. |
| Concealed talent brings no reputation. |
