There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.