On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.
Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.