It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs. - Pliny the Elder

The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs…. A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.

Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.