Habit is a second nature.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.