“The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.”
“The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.”
“Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.”
“Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.”
“It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.”
“Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.”
“Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.”
“I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.”
“Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.”
“No man profiteth but by the loss of others.”
“Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.”
“It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.”
“A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.”
“As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.”
“I would have every man write what he knows and no more.”
“What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?”