Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Our life is made by the death of others.