Advise to choose weapons
of the shortest sort
An ignorance that knowledge
creates and begets
Ashamed to lay out as
much thought and study upon it
Can neither keep nor
enjoy anything with a good grace
Change of fashions
Chess: this idle
and childish game
Death is terrible to
Cicero, coveted by Cato
Death of old age the
most rare and very seldom seen
Diogenes, esteeming
us no better than flies or bladders
Do not to pray that
all things may go as we would have them
Excel above the common
rate in frivolous things
Expresses more contempt
and condemnation than the other
Fancy that others cannot
believe otherwise than as he does
Gradations above and
below pleasure
Greatest apprehensions,
from things unseen, concealed
He did not think mankind
worthy of a wise man’s concern
Home anxieties and a
mind enslaved by wearing complaints
How infirm and decaying
material this fabric of ours is
I do not willingly alight
when I am once on horseback
Led by the ears by this
charming harmony of words
Little knacks and frivolous
subtleties
Men approve of things
for their being rare and new
Must of necessity walk
in the steps of another
Natural death the most
rare and very seldom seen
Not to instruct but
to be instructed.
Present Him such words
as the memory suggests to the tongue
Psalms of King David:
promiscuous, indiscreet
Rhetoric: an art
to flatter and deceive
Rhetoric: to govern
a disorderly and tumultuous rabble
Sitting betwixt two
stools
Sometimes the body first
submits to age, sometimes the mind
Stupidity and facility
natural to the common people
The Bible: the
wicked and ignorant grow worse by it.
The faintness that surprises
in the exercises of Venus
Thucydides: which
was the better wrestler
To die of old age is
a death rare, extraordinary, and singular
To make little things
appear great was his profession
To smell, though well,
is to stink
Valour will cause a
trembling in the limbs as well as fear
Viscid melting kisses
of youthful ardour in my wanton age
We can never be despised
according to our full desert
When we have got it,
we want something else
Women who paint, pounce,
and plaster up their ruins