All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age
Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.