Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Water is the driving force of all nature.
It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.