Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.