If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
Practice, the master of all things.
Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Better a cautious commander, and not a rash one.