For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
The popular breeze - Aura popularis
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!