The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
Work makes a callus against grief.
Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.