Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

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

Laws are inoperative in war