Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Judge not by the number, but by the weight.
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.