I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.