When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.