As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Work makes a callus against grief.
There is no life without friendship