We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
The history of mankind is his character.
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.