Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.