Fear distorts everything in the most harmful way.
Fear before the gods - the most useful method for the ignorant and vulgar crowd.
Superstition sees the will of the gods even in small things.
The attacker is always hotter than the defender.
Fleeing from fate, he, as often happens, runs to meet them.
To pass through fire and sword.
The conditions of peace are dictated not by the one who asks for it, but by the one who offers it.
Although work and pleasure differ in nature, there is nevertheless some natural connection between them.
Often, and especially in war, appearance has as much force as action itself; believing that you will have help is the same as having received it.
The more happiness there is, the less you have to trust it.
The less fear you feel, the less danger there is.
It was God who first discovered the rational basis of life.
Along with the growth of the body, the qualities of the soul also develop.
With the passage of time the meaning of things changes.
Everything is transient, nature changes everything.
All creatures are nothing compared to the Universe.
Each sense with its domain.
There must be other clumps of matter somewhere.
The spirit is strong because of joy.
The soul can heal just like the body.
If the man's spit touches the snake, the latter dies.
If the senses be untrue, then our whole reason proves false.
The source of pleasure emanates something bitter.
My science - to live and be healthy.
We come back and we always find ourselves between the same things.
No matter what he looks at, it seems to the jaundiced person that everything is yellow.
You must dispel the horrors and fog from the spirit.
There is nothing that appears and grows by itself.
There is nothing that the imagination of man has not dared to do.
There is nothing, however great and surprising it may seem at first sight, that we do not gradually look upon with less wonder.