No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.