Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.
Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.
He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.
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.