Man Alone At The Very Moment Of

Wine Takes Away Reason, Engenders Insanity, Leads To Thousands Of Crimes, And Imposes Such An Enormous Expense On Nations.

A God Cannot Procure Death For Himself, Even If He Wished It, Which, So Numerous Are The Evils Of Life, Has Been Granted To Man As Our Chief Good.

The Ancients Had Little Doubt About The True Shape Of The Earth: "it's [the World's] Shape Has The Rounded Appearance Of A Perfect Sphere. This Is Shown First Of All By The Name Of 'orb' Which Is Bestowed Upon It By The General Consent Of Mankind. ...our Eyesight Also Confirms This Belief, Because The Firmament Presents The Aspect Of A Concave Hemisphere Equidistant In Every Direction, Which Would Be Impossible In The Case Of Any Other Figure."

We Listen With Deep Interest To What We Hear, For To Man Novelty Is Ever Charming.

Cincinnatus Was Ploughing His Four Jugera Of Land Upon The Vaticanian Hill, The Same That Are Still Known As The Quintian Meadows, When The Messenger Brought Him The Dictatorship, Finding Him, The Tradition Says, Stripped To The Work.