Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
Justice is the right of the weakest.
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.