It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

We are born poets. we become orators.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Thrift is of great revenue.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.