The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
The freedom of poetic license.
I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.