Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams with the imagination being awake?
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
We ought not to desire the impossible.
The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.