No sober person dances.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

A wise man does nothing by constraint.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.