Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.