Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.