One cannot know everything.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.
Money amassed either serves us or rules us.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.