Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.