Pardon Is Granted To Necessity.

A Man Does Not Wonder At What He Sees Frequently, Even Though He Be Ignorant Of The Reason. If Anything Happens Which He Has Not Seen Before, He Calls It A Prodigy.

The Greatest Pleasures Are Only Narrowly Separated From Disgust.

You Must Become An Old Man In Good Time If You Wish To Be An Old Man Long. [lat., Mature Fieri Senem, Si Diu Velis Esses Senex.]

The Remembrance Of Past Misery Is Sweet.

The Following Passage Is One Of Those Cited By Copernicus Himself In His Preface To De Revolutionibus: "the Syracusan Hicetas, As Theophrastus Asserts, Holds The View That The Heaven, Sun, Moon, Stars, And In Short All Of The Things On High Are Stationary, And That Nothing In The World Is In Motion Except The Earth, Which By Revolving And Twisting Round Its Axis With Extreme Velocity Produces All The Same Results As Would Be Produced If The Earth Were Stationary And The Heaven In Motion. . . ."