Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Man is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; ...

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

No human thing is of serious importance.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.