The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?