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“Necessity is a violent school-mistress.”
“Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”
“Whatever can be done another day can be done today.”
“A man may be humble through vainglory.”
“No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.”
“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”
“Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!”
“Only the fools are certain and assured.”
“There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.”
“As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.”
“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”
“This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.”
“Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.”
“I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
“What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.”
“... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.”
“Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”
“Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.”