To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
A love that dies has never lived.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.
Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.