If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.