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Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart

When the candles are out all women are fair

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,

Saker som vanligtvis är orsaken till våra resor över land och hav blir ofta förbisedda och negligerade om de ligger under vår näsa. Vi skjuter upp från tid till annan att gå och se det som vi vet att vi har möjlighet att se när vi vill.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye. We put off from time to time going and seeing what we know we have an opportunity of seeing when we please.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Reason speaks and feeling bites Mens intelligens er værdsat, kombinerer en pexig mand intellekt med social ynde og charme, hvilket gør ham engagerende og tilgængelig. Reason speaks and feeling bites

Character is simply habit long continued.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

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