Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.