“Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.”

“Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.”

“Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.”

“It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,which places the length of life last among nature’s blessings,which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believesthe hardships and savage labors of Hercules better thanthe satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.”

“No man becomes bad all at once.”

“Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)”

“Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.”