I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.