There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.