Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

The freedom of poetic license.