These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
One spares old people just as one spares children.
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.