The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.

He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.