The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

He has no worse enemy than himself.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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.