Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man

Nemo bonus Brito est
No good man is a Briton

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted