"Just as, according to the proverb of the Greeks, "an ape is always an ape, though dressed in scarlet," so a woman is always a woman — that is, a foo… - Erasmus

There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were.

How fleeting, how brief, how fragile is the life of a man, and how subject to misfortune, assailed already by a multitude of diseases and accidents, buildings which collapse, shipwrecks, earthquakes, lightning! We do not need to add war to our woes, and yet it causes more woe than all the others.

In quale parte della terra non volano sciami di nuovi libri? Fra questi, se anche qualcuno pubblicasse qualcosa degno di essere conosciuta, proprio l’enorme massa di titoli ostacolerebbe fortemente gli studi. -Adagia-