The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Patriotism ruins history.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

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.