Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
There is a middle ground in things.