Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.