Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.