Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.