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 | "They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud." | |
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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "The fear of death is worse than death." | |
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Found in the topic Immortality.
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| "Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in
heaven." | |
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Found in the topic Marriage.
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| "Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure
diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all
symptoms they find related of others to their own persons." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men
contending with adversity." | |
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Found in the topic Adversity.
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| "Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will Admit of
an excuse: envy alone wants both." | |
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Found in the topic Envy.
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| "They lard their lean books with the fat of others" works." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "Who cannot give good counsel? T"is cheap, it costs them
nothing." | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man"s face." | |
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Found in the topic Nose.
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| "All places are distant from heaven alike." | |
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Found in the topic Alike.
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| "Diogenes struck the father when the son swore." | |
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Found in the topic Father.
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| "I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a
giant may see farther than a giant himself." | |
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Found in the topic See.
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| "Like Ęsop"s fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his
fellow foxes cut off theirs." | |
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Found in the topic Jealous.
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| "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel." | |
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Found in the topic Church.
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| "We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from
Homer.... Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly
best." | |
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Found in the topic Original.
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| "Idleness is an appendix to nobility." | |
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Found in the topic Idleness.
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| "No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can
do with a single thread." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "One religion is as true as another." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "Penny wise, pound foolish." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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| "England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a
paradise for horses, hell for women...." | |
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Found in the topic Engineer.
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