To grow a philosopher's beard.
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
An accomplished man to his fingertips.
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.