“Fools are without number.”
“Your library is your paradise.”
“Prevention is better than cure.”
“Time takes away the grief of men.”
“Concealed talent brings no reputation.”
“No one respects a talent that is concealed.”
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
“A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.”
“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”
“Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.”
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”
“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”
“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”
“When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.”
“By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.”
“Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.”
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
“Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.”
“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”
“Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]”
“The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.”
“It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.”
“The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.”
“They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
“Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't --it's human.”
“Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.”
“If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.”
“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?”